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| Broadside | p. ix |
| The Primal Scene | p. xii |
| Introduction | p. xiv |
| The Tinker: Millenium Macho | p. xxi |
| The Life of Riley | p. xxix |
| The Writer (A Technical Note) | p. xxxiv |
| Caveat | p. xli |
| A Tinker's Trinity: Read, Repair, Recreate | p. xlviii |
| The Tinker | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| The Tinker's History | p. 7 |
| The Tinker and the Knight | p. 13 |
| The Tinker as Polish Joke | p. 16 |
| Hospitality | p. 21 |
| Entertainment | p. 24 |
| The Media | p. 29 |
| Leisure and Exercise | p. 33 |
| The Tinker and Modern Idealism | p. 38 |
| The Tinker as Roland Barthes | p. 42 |
| The Intellectual Sublime | p. 44 |
| Altruism and the Sublime | p. 48 |
| Handling Sin | p. 53 |
| Love | p. 59 |
| The Reading Guest | p. 61 |
| Transference Idealism | p. 87 |
| Love and the Tinker | p. 96 |
| Love as Nit-Picking | p. 99 |
| Family Romance | p. 101 |
| Family Speech | p. 104 |
| Love as Play | p. 108 |
| The Love Mechanism | p. 111 |
| Love's Body | p. 116 |
| What Men Must Do | p. 125 |
| The Tinker as Professional | p. 127 |
| The Art of Latency | p. 136 |
| Mutiny From the Bounty | p. 145 |
| Truth | p. 149 |
| Humanism | p. 151 |
| Existential Individualism as Dependency | p. 154 |
| The Tinker as Phillip Reiff | p. 160 |
| The Tinker as Literary Hero | p. 167 |
| Rebellion and Consolation | p. 180 |
| What Men Must Let the Women Do | p. 189 |
| What Women Must Do | p. 193 |
| Ultimate Macho | p. 195 |
| Backfire | p. 216 |
| Taboo and Nonviolence | p. 232 |
| Domestic Ritual | p. 236 |
| The Mask of Literacy | p. 244 |
| Appendix | |
| The Tinker as Zealot | p. 255 |
| Envoy | p. 260 |
| About the Author | p. 265 |
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